As you know, I love making baby quilts as enduring, functional gifts but also because smaller quilts are an excellent medium for experimenting with different techniques and mastering new skills. I was thrilled to receive this photo in the mail today of my cousin’s daughter Kacey lying on her quilt. Apparently she uses it all the time which is exactly what I hoped would happen:
Today I also dispatched Prettily Pastel to baby Isabel Alexandra in Ireland. In the interests of expediency, and given my previous problems with printing labels on my inkjet printer, I was very tempted to send it off without a label. However, I persevered and successfully printed this:
The bad news is that I’ve just noticed that I omitted the date. Oh well. The good news is that I think I’ve found the solution to my printing woes. Instead of trying to feed the slippery back fabric sheets directly into the EPSON printer, I used a glue stick and stuck the fabric sheet onto another sheet of paper leaving a leading edge of about an inch of paper only. The printer grabbed onto the paper and the label feed through cleanly the very first time. Yay!
Francoise says
Lovely picture of baby Kacey and her quilt!
When I leave an edge of paper without fabric, my printer makes a terrible mess…
Helen Conway says
I am doing a Quilt Uni course for printing fabris at the moment and the tutor recoomends putting a line of sticky tape at the leading edge of the fabric sheet 9 paper side obvioulsy) and cutting little ( les stahn 1/4 inch) tringales off the lead corners. I didn’t have problems before I tried this but it certainly didn’t cause any!
As for the picture I prefer the quilt to the baby ( not a maternal bone….!)